Seven world records by five athletes hailing from four different continents in the space of only eight days. The reawakening of athletics following the Olympic summer has been spectacular, culminating ...

The world 5000m short track record of 12:44.09 set by USA’s Grant Fisher in Boston on 14 February 2025 has been ratified ...

Swedish-American pole vault sensation Armand Duplantis continues to dominate the sport, adding Olympic gold medals and ...

As Sunday paper journalists, Cliff and I were both looking for a follow-up from the stories that would appear in the following day's prints, highlighting the throw of 90.98 metres with which the ...

The World Athletics Championships in Tokyo continues after another thrilling day of action in Japan. Tuesday provided another star-studded schedule, with Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone shattering the ...

Seven world records in just over a week raises eyebrows. While such feats are not unheard of in track and field, this record-breaking nine-day period was not at an Olympic Games, a World Championships ...

A 16-year-old from New Zealand has set a new world record for the fastest mile ever run by an under–18 athlete.

During a year where more than 10 athletics world records have already been broken, fans now look to the Diamond League Final in Brussels, Belgium to add at least one more. In an Olympic year, the ...

Number one - kerching! - is Jake Wightman realising that his bold, front-running quest for a medal at last year's World Athletics Championships in Oregon, with the lean and hungry Olympic champion ...

The radical plan to wipe out athletics world records set before 2005 was not a cowardly proposal, a senior member of the sports governing body said Thursday. Paula Radcliffe ran a world record time of ...

The radical plan to wipe out athletics world records set before 2005 was not a cowardly proposal, a senior member of the sports governing body said Thursday. Olivier Gers was responding to criticism ...